Trending Inventors — the 12 months to October 2026
The 100 most-viewed inventors on Wikipedia, the 12 months to October 2026. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Steve Jobs. Data as of 25 October 2026.
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14,824,746
Total Views (the 12 months to October 2026)
1
Steve Jobs
American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011)
815,240
views
views
2
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
718,682
views
views
3
Spider-Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
571,385
views
views
4
Christopher Columbus
Italian navigator, explorer, and colonist (1451–1506)
481,005
views
views
5
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
449,063
views
views
6
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856-1943)
444,566
views
views
7
Luigi Mangione
American who killed Brian Thompson
418,788
views
views
8
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
378,730
views
views
9
James Cameron
Canadian filmmaker and explorer (born 1954)
373,255
views
views
10
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
365,100
views
views
11
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
327,612
views
views
12
Walt Disney
American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)
316,818
views
views
13
Howard Hughes
American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer (1905–1976)
315,440
views
views
14
Hideo Kojima
Japanese video game designer (born 1963)
288,832
views
views
15
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
245,442
views
views
16
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
229,276
views
views
17
Hedy Lamarr
Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping (1914-2000)
218,870
views
views
18
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
218,746
views
views
19
Sergey Brin
American billionaire businessman (born 1973)
212,534
views
views
20
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
206,931
views
views
21
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
193,039
views
views
22
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
186,184
views
views
23
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
179,698
views
views
24
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
173,812
views
views
25
Henry Ford
American business magnate (1863–1947)
170,737
views
views
26
Bobby Fischer
American chess player (1943–2008)
168,345
views
views
27
Justin Roiland
American animator and voice actor (born 1980)
156,642
views
views
28
Iron Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
143,050
views
views
29
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
141,820
views
views
30
Palmer Luckey
American founder of Oculus VR and inventor of the Oculus Rift
141,538
views
views
31
Toby Fox
American video game designer and composer (born 1991)
139,903
views
views
32
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
139,341
views
views
33
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist (1902–1974)
131,909
views
views
34
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
131,604
views
views
35
Margaret Atwood
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor (born 1939)
128,917
views
views
36
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
128,883
views
views
37
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
127,072
views
views
38
Ceslaw Bojarski
French-Polish counterfeiter
125,999
views
views
39
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
123,529
views
views
40
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
117,176
views
views
41
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French writer and aviator (1900–1944)
114,566
views
views
42
Matthew Mercer
American actor
107,731
views
views
43
Paul Allen
American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft (1953–2018)
106,419
views
views
44
John Jacob Astor IV
American businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel (1864–1912)
99,875
views
views
45
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)
95,931
views
views
46
Claude Shannon
American mathematician and information theorist (1916–2001)
94,450
views
views
47
Markus Persson
Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)
92,638
views
views
48
Sam Houser
British video game producer and developer (born 1971)
90,566
views
views
49
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
90,365
views
views
50
Enrico Fermi
Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)
90,305
views
views
51
Johannes Gutenberg
German inventor and craftsman (1400-1468)
90,077
views
views
52
Bill Wyman
British musician, former bassist of the Rolling Stones
89,706
views
views
53
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
89,597
views
views
54
Mikhail Kalashnikov
Soviet and Russian small arms designer (1919–2013)
89,518
views
views
55
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
86,318
views
views
56
Mark Rober
American YouTuber, engineer and inventor
85,589
views
views
57
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
85,572
views
views
58
Jacques Cousteau
French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author (1910-1997)
85,523
views
views
59
Tony Stark
fictional character from the Marvel Cinematic Universe
83,025
views
views
60
Marc Andreessen
American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer
81,976
views
views
61
Madam C. J. Walker
American entrepreneur (1867-1919)
79,251
views
views
62
Epic Games
American video game and software developer
78,820
views
views
63
Ben Reilly
fictional character in Marvel Comics
76,702
views
views
64
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)
74,591
views
views
65
Laurie Anderson
American artist and musician (born 1947)
72,614
views
views
66
Mike Oldfield
English musician (born 1953)
72,150
views
views
67
Jony Ive
English designer and former Chief Design Officer at Apple (born 1967)
70,288
views
views
68
Hank Green
American author, vlogger, and science communicator
70,121
views
views
69
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
69,411
views
views
70
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
67,630
views
views
71
Alexey Pajitnov
Russian video game designer (born 1955)
66,007
views
views
72
George Washington Carver
African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
65,314
views
views
73
Hidetaka Miyazaki
Japanese video game designer and executive (born 1974)
63,359
views
views
74
Frauke Petry
German politician
63,133
views
views
75
The Doctor
fictional character from the television series Doctor Who
63,028
views
views
76
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831–1879)
63,015
views
views
77
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
62,398
views
views
78
Satoshi Tajiri
Japanese video game designer
60,963
views
views
79
David Packouz
American former arms dealer
59,088
views
views
80
B.F. Skinner
American behaviorist (1904–1990)
58,605
views
views
81
Sid Meier
Canadian-American game programmer and designer
57,662
views
views
82
Artemy Lebedev
Russian designer
57,644
views
views
83
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874–1937)
56,714
views
views
84
Joseph Pilates
German inventor of pilates (1883–1967)
56,535
views
views
85
James Dyson
British inventor, industrial designer and founder of the Dyson company (born 1947)
56,348
views
views
86
Ferdinand Porsche
Austrian-born German automotive engineer, inventor (1875–1951)
55,778
views
views
87
Levi Strauss
German-Jewish-born American businessman (1829-1902)
55,163
views
views
88
Mate Rimac
Croatian inventor and entrepreneur
54,818
views
views
89
Lori Greiner
American TV personality and entrepreneur
53,552
views
views
90
John G. Trump
American electrical engineer (1907–1985)
53,471
views
views
91
Francis Galton
British eugenist, polymath, and behavioural geneticist (1822–1911)
53,325
views
views
92
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)
52,677
views
views
93
John Muir
Scottish-American naturalist (1838–1914)
52,564
views
views
94
Phil Robertson
American professional hunter, businessman and reality television personality
52,131
views
views
95
Bolivar Trask
fictional character in Marvel Comics
51,235
views
views
96
Ruth Handler
American businesswoman
51,199
views
views
97
Jack Parsons
American rocket engineer (1914–1952)
51,044
views
views
98
Satoru Iwata
Japanese video game programmer and businessman (1959–2015)
50,584
views
views
99
Raymond Kurzweil
American computer scientist, author, entrepreneur, futurist and inventor (born 1948)
50,333
views
views
100
Nellie Bly
American journalist
50,221
views
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